Exciting news. This morning we installed a starter hive on the rooftop of Bash Creations (www.bashcreations.com) at the juction of Curtain Road and Great Eastern Street, East London.
The site is 10m x 10m by 10m. It has all the extremes of wind and solar access that comes with rooftops and it will be interesting to see how the bees cope. We have had a hive on the roof of the Royal Festival Hive, South Bank London (http://royalfestivalhive.typepad.com/) for two years now, but the roof there is much more sheltered.
We will let the bees settle in for a week before checking them. So I'm post an update with photos towards the end of the next week.
Another important part of the project is the use of the rooftop for food production (urban agriculture). 8 tonnes of soil got delivered last week and we will be busy building raised beds over the next fortnight.
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